IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

You can message from your phone?

Oh ok, thought so.

Why haven't they made a battle.net mobile app that can chat anyways? Seems like a no-brainer.

I know you can do guild chat with the armory app and apparently hearthstone app, but seems like a mobile battle.net app would be nice.

Noodleface_sl said:

Its not always about money

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Yup when I took my last job they offered a posistion in the bay area of CA with the parent company at three times the pay. Wasn't interested. They are still working thru the process now of finding out people rather live in other areas for less pay that can actually afford a house and such. They've transfered about 15 people so far into TX that took a pay cut and they all talked endlessly about how big of a house they could afford now.

I don't really know of any game place that pays everyone well. Key people get bumped up, but only if they are aggressive enough to really demand it. The real savants that make the magic at most places are so introverted that they'd never ask for a raise. Games are made on the backs of people that are tremendously valuable, but make very little.

And let's not forget another big aspect. If you write you worked at blizzard on your resume and everyone is going to want to hire you. Same thing with me and Emc - they see a fortune 500 company and they at least want to talk to me in an interview

My first thought would be to ask if they were responsible for the fucking disaster of the real money auction house in D3.

Noodleface_sl said:

And let's not forget another big aspect. If you write you worked at blizzard on your resume and everyone is going to want to hire you. Same thing with me and Emc - they see a fortune 500 company and they at least want to talk to me in an interview

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I've heard this as well. I'm not fooling myself thinking my overall standard of living wouldn't go down if I accepted the position but I'm getting kind of sick of dreading going into work everyday because I have to do uninteresting work on uninteresting projects for a company I don't really care very much about serving places I also don't really care about. I'm not really a big fan of waking up every morning going "Ug, I have to go to work again?" For the first maybe 4-5 years of working at my current place I enjoyed going to work. But the management turn over to big-bank executives has made things extremely rigid and far less entertaining. It doesn't help I don't trust the higher ups at all nor do I have a great outlook on the position of the company in 5-10 years.

I'm also not fooling myself into thinking in a few years I wouldn't feel the same way with Blizzard. But I'm also willing to give it a shot. I also would love to live in Orange with the climate and proximity to beaches and hiking.

Its the supermodel girlfriend. You'll get bored fucking her eventually so you just hope she's not a vapid cunt too.

Generally I look at voluntary worker turnover to try to determine how good the place probably is to work long term and for a tech company Blizzards I'd very low. I did similar for researching my current place which has tons of people here 30+ years.

Yeah I researched my company after starting and the turnover was high. At Emc the turnover is really low. Lot of guys with 15+ years. Should've just fought for a raise. Oh well live and learn. Only make this mistake once.

Different industry obviously, but I always ask about turnover and when their last layoff was. Some people seem shocked you ask. One owner told me "you know, man up and man down". Yeah no thanks.

Outside of it being the only opportunity available to me, that's why I'm confident my future at my current job is well in hand. Was one of the first questions I asked. Lots of people in software and IT who've been around for 5-15 years. Tells me it's worth sticking around.

FURTHERMORE, in the words of Jon Oliver- is this not the current year? How the fuck can there not be groups for battle tags to organize people from different stuff.

Welp leave tomorrow interview Friday. Wish me luck RR crew!

Tenks_sl said:

Welp leave tomorrow interview Friday. Wish me luck RR crew!

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Good luck bro. After all these complaints you have to wonder if it is a sinking ship!

Work gave the entire company free tickets to an advance screening of star trek. Wonder if it's even worth going